How to Use downtrend in a Sentence

downtrend

noun
  • That overall downtrend has been tested and failed to break each time.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • At the start of last week the downtrend, line d, and the zero line were both overcome.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • But velocity has been in a downtrend for the past two decades!
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Technically, the stock has topped out and is in a steep downtrend.
    — Adam Sarhan, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • The crypto was off its lows early Friday but still in a downtrend.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Note that a seven-year price downtrend has been reversed to the upside in the monthly strip.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The trend This stock had been mired in a two-year downtrend and finally broken it.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
  • There have been plenty of things to worry about as this stock market downtrend progressed.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Is the pharma index breaking its steep downtrend?
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In the Antarctic, no clear downtrend in overall sea ice extent has yet emerged.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Just ten trading days later the longer-term downtrend, line a, was also overcome.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • And, a three-year relative downtrend has been reversed to the upside.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The sharp reading last week reversed the downtrend in sentiment, line b.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • This is typical of a rally in a downtrend and favored even lower prices.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Yamamoto said the yen is expected to stay in a downtrend if stocks remain strong.
    — Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • What had been hot stocks are now in the cold as ice territory as the price charts show serious downtrends for each.
    — John Navin, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • While the downtrend is still intact, price is reaching a level where a mean-reversion bounce could set up.
    — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The recent downtrend appears to be driven, in part, by a volatile gauge of margins called trade services.
    — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • First, the stock is finally breaking above a very steep downtrend line that has been in place for the past 10 years.
    — CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The price of natural gas has emerged from a six-month downtrend and re-entered its longer-term uptrend channel.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
  • That reverses a downtrend in April and May, when volume fell.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 4 July 2026
  • That reverses a downtrend in April and May, when volume fell.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 6 July 2026
  • The monthly graph shows the reversal of a seven- year downtrend in relative strength.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The downtrend in yields, line a, was broken in early October.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • On top of that, the stock is starting to move above an important five-year downtrend line — and an important break above said line.
    — Carter Braxton Worth, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Technically, the stock is in a steep downtrend and a lot more time and price are needed before a new uptrend emerges.
    — Adam Sarhan, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • If the chart is moving higher growth stocks are out performing value stocks, and vice versa in the case of a downtrend.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The price action went from a clear downtrend phase of lower highs and lower lows to more of a bullish trend with higher highs and higher lows.
    — David Keller, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Vivid suspended giving guidance for the rest of the year last month, a move that extended a long downtrend in its shares.
    — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 12 June 2025
  • The move through the downtrend, line b, four weeks ago was a bullish signal for the intermediate term (point 2).
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023

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